Improvement in ticket-register



S. SIOHEL & S. FEUST.

TICKET REGISTER.

Patnted June 16,1868.

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IMPROVEMENT m .TICKE'lT-R'EGlSTER' Specification ibrniing part of Letters Patent No. 79.017, dated June 16, 186E.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that we, 8. SICHEL ands. FEUST, of New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Machine for Controllingthe Receivers of Fares on Public Oonveyances; and wedo hereby declare that the following 'is a full, description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

Figure 1 is a side view of'themechanism of our improved machine. Fig. 2 is a plan View of the same. r

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The object of this invention is to prevent embezzlement on the part of those persons who receive fares on railroad-cars and other public conveyances where theuse of -our machine is applicable. It consists of the mechanism described in the following.

A is a base or pedestahto which are aflixed the uprights f f, which support two rollers, J, one above the-other. These rollers are in contact with each other, their ofiice being towithdraw the tickets or checks, which are in a com tinuous roll and wound on a spool, D, revolving on the shaft h, which latter has its beari rigs in the uprights E E, affixed to the base A, as shown. The diameters of the rollers are such that one complete revolution will withdraw and protrude one ticket beyond the ed es of the plates 9 g, which latter are afiixed etween. the uprights d d and serve to guide the protruded ticket, and also against which the ticket may be torn, to sever it from the remaining tickets of the roll. These plates converge toward their outer edges, so that only suiiicient space is left between the said edges to permit the ticket to pass. The contact of the rollers is adjusted by means of the set-screws e e, which bear upon the reduced ends of the upper roller, thesaid reduced ends being in vertical slotsinthe uprights f f, whereby the rollers may be adjusted to the requisite pressure to withdraw and protrude any thickness. of ticket-paper. also provided with pinions a a, which engage with each other, and thusinsure the rotation reference indicate corre- .the ticket, and by ing from the shaft as a sharp edge.

The rollers are of both rollers in a uniform manner. The rollers areturned by means of a crank-handle, L; of the, cam I, which latter serves as a crank by being mounted on. the end of the lower roller, as shown, and also as a camsurface to raise the clapper H, pivoted on the upright b, and actuated downward by the spring .9, attached to the under side of the clapper, as shown. The bell is for the purpose of calling the attention 'of the passenger about to receive this means announces to him andothers 'near that the conductor or person receiving fares and issuing tickets or checks therefor has drawn theticket from the case in the propermanner, and not substituted aspurious ticket for the purpose of embezzlin g the amount of the fare. The knowledge of the factthat'the absence of the sound of the bell will beat suspicious circumstance, which may be communicated to the proper authorities of the road or'conveyance by any one of the passengers, will tend to prevent the receiver of fares from giving counterfeit checks, and thus act as a check upon him in this particular. The produced end of the lower roller bears a pinion, g, which engages with a oogged wheel, K, on the shaft Z, as shown,

the said shaft revolving in bearings in the upright n and the register-dial m, which latter also furnishes a hearing, it being alhxed to the base A, as shown. A pointer, 0', projectl, or its equivalent, indicates on the graduated face of the dial m the number of times the rollers have been revolved, and consequently the number of tickets that have been withdrawn from the spool -D.

In practice, several of such dials and pointers will be arranged by a train of wheel-work to indicate units,'tens, and hundreds.

In practice, the box will be carried at the waist by means of a belt or other suitable means, and being in a locked case the mech anism cannot be tampered with by the wearer for the purpose of defrauding his employers. A circular hole, M, in the side of the case allows the handle L, projecting through it, to be turned. The bell G is affixed to the upright E, as shown. i

The register-dials in practice will be protected by a glass plate set on or against the case B in any suitable manner.

'We claim as new and desire toIsecm'e by The above specification of our invention Letters Patent'- 4 signed bv11s t-l1is 18th day of February, 1868.

The combination of the'rollers J, plates 9, cam I, crank L, spool D, bell G, hammer .H, S. SIOHEL.

with any suitable train of WhGGLWOIfk con-- i S. FEUST.

meeting the rollers with the dials of any suitable registering apparatus, all substantially as I ,Witnesses: shown and desciibmL-and fort-he purpose set. j WM. F. MONAMARA, forth. a .ALEX; F. ROBERTS. 

